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In Honor of Easter and National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month, and yesterday was Easter Sunday; those two facts are reason enough for me to share a poem with you today. Here’s another piece I love, by my all-time favorite poet.

i am a little church(no great cathedral) far from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities -i do not worry if briefer days grow briefest, i am not sorry when sun and rain make april

my life is the life of the reaper and the sower; my prayers are prayers of earth’s own clumsily striving (finding and losing and laughing and crying)children whose any sadness or joy is my grief or my gladness

around me surges a miracle of unceasing birth and glory and death and resurrection: over my sleeping self float flaming symbols of hope,and i wake to a perfect patience of mountains

i am a little church(far from the frantic world with its rapture and anguish)at peace with nature -i do not worry if longer nights grow longest; i am not sorry when silence becomes singing

winter by spring,i lift my diminutive spire to merciful Him Whose only now is forever: standing erect in the deathless truth of His presence (welcoming humbly His light and proudly His darkness)

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What I especially love about this poem is that it could be a literal poem about a little country church, or it could be symbolic and be meant to represent a person. I think it works both ways. Oh, and I love some of the phrases, too. Love, love, love e.e. cummings.

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